Movie Dipping
How could two films be so different yet so similar? I saw them randomly and almost back to back (give or take a week or two). Both drama/comedies, both dealing with the paradoxical art and escapism of...
View ArticleThe Visitor – more movie dipping
They told me I should see this one. So I did. The Visitor certainly evoked memories from not so distant times when folk from my church and I sat through tribunals, negotiaited immigration...
View ArticleMovie Review: “Seven Pounds”
Well, I’d like to review this movie but it’s hard without putting in a spoiler. Suffice it to say that it deals with themes of guilt and atonement and one has to stay with the confused plot line for...
View ArticlePotiche…
… is one of those sub-titled French films I caught at the local arts cinema this morning. It was like a trip through a time machine – a light treatment of the feminism and middle-class cultural wars of...
View ArticleSource Code: a movie review
I was feeling starved of movies and had a couple of hours free this morning. Source Code seemed the best of the crop at the local multiplex, although the synopsis looked as though I might be in for...
View ArticleThe Guard: Movie Review
The Guard focuses on a maverick Irish cop based in picturesque County Galway, where Gaelic is the language of preference. With a nod to more permissive times, a well known Anglo Saxon word serves...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games, Girard and the Cross
Cover of The Hunger Games I succumbed and took in “The Hunger Games” at the local multiplex – a greybeard amongst herds of youth. The screenplay is the first of several based on a popular teenage...
View ArticleLenten Voices: On Her Majesty’s Service….
Kingsman: The Secret Service – is a rip-roaring enjoyable spy spoof lightly touching on some tangible everyday challenges – climate change, bullying, coming of age, redemption. The genre, of course,...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....